Siloam Springs Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church issued the following announcement on July 6.
ACS Disaster Response teams partner with other agencies to provide help in Surfside, Florida.
Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACS DR) has been active in the Miami, Florida, area as search and rescue teams work in Surfside, after the early morning collapse of a 12-story Champlain Towers South condominium building on June 24, 2021. While the rescue and recovery efforts continue, ACS DR has organized a warehouse in partnership with Feeding South Florida with donated supplies for survivors who have been displaced. ACS DR has also determined various distribution sites, including several Adventist churches, and is working to render aid through emotional/spiritual care providers who give support to local residents and family members affected by the tragic event where 36 are confirmed dead and 109 missing, as of July 6.
ACS DR is in partnership with the American Red Cross as a team of credentialed emotional/spiritual care providers immediately began helping upon arrival. Counseling was offered to those sheltering at a nearby hotel, as well as those residents and rescue workers near the building.
“ACS continues to work, addressing some of the most recent events around the NAD. Miami appears to be the most pressing situation,” said W. Derrick Lea, North American Division ACS director, noting that in the previous week teams led by South Central Conference ACS directors Lillie Buckingham and Barbara Barnes were positioned to help in Alabama after Hurricane Claudette affected the southern part of that state. “The state asked ACS to assist with warehousing; our Southeastern and Florida conferences are working in a coordinated way with a team that is serving the affected community,” Lea added.
“We’re making a difference, from the way we continue to operate the warehouse in an efficient way to the additional help we were asked to provide with the emotional and spiritual care that has continued into a new week.”
The co-managing efforts of conference ACS directors Robert Moore (Southeastern) and Conrad Duncan (Florida) have identified trained members who’ve outfitted a team for 24 hours a day during the first week at the Feeding South Florida warehouse in Pembroke Park, about 15 mins from collapsed structure. The warehouse has been secured for six weeks.
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Source: Siloam Springs Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church
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